diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 4b4c1d2b507a..a6989531347e 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@
   eqyiel = "Ruben Maher <r@rkm.id.au>";
   ericbmerritt = "Eric Merritt <eric@afiniate.com>";
   ericsagnes = "Eric Sagnes <eric.sagnes@gmail.com>";
+  erictapen = "Justin Humm <justin.humm@posteo.de>";
   erikryb = "Erik Rybakken <erik.rybakken@math.ntnu.no>";
   ertes = "Ertugrul Söylemez <esz@posteo.de>";
   ethercrow = "Dmitry Ivanov <ethercrow@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch-bower/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch-bower/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dbdd64d06b5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch-bower/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, gawk, mercury, pandoc, ncurses, gpgme }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "notmuch-bower-${version}";
+  version = "2017-09-27";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "wangp";
+    repo = "bower";
+    rev = "e4918ed581984bf2813f51f007a0aaaa7fa0da7f";
+    sha256 = "13np5yharjik1pp23cfgffi0g0ikl6pl5sqqyy0ki7gk7gyy913i";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ gawk mercury pandoc ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses gpgme ];
+
+  makeFlags = [ "PARALLEL=-j$(NIX_BUILD_CORES)" "bower" "man" ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    mv bower $out/bin/
+    mkdir -p $out/share/man/man1
+    mv bower.1 $out/share/man/man1/
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/wangp/bower;
+    description = "A curses terminal client for the Notmuch email system";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ erictapen ];
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 67d619cf9883..0860b964032f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13829,6 +13829,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   brackets = callPackage ../applications/editors/brackets { gconf = gnome3.gconf; };
 
+  notmuch-bower = callPackage ../applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch-bower { };
+
   bristol = callPackage ../applications/audio/bristol { };
 
   bs1770gain = callPackage ../applications/audio/bs1770gain {